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Twitter accounts every web developer should follow

Twitter is not just for following celebrities and sharing what’s on your mind. There are some very good use cases for Twitter and one of that is for following awesome people on the field of your interest. In this post I’m going to share a list of the people and entities that you should follow on twitter as a web developer.

The editor of the popular web development blog Nettuts+. I wouldn’t give links to where you can find this awesome guy because everything is already in his site. That includes his youtube account, twitter, google plus, interviews, books, and tutorials.

A social news site dedicated to JavaScript and related topics. You will mostly see JavaScript projects hosted on Github, Node.js, WebGL, HTML5, and links to some useful articles on JavaScript. Very useful if you’re into front-end web development.

Not really very active on twitter but he usually post some useful updates or some talks on twitter. I suggest that you follow him on Github if you want to see some of the projects that he’s involved with.

A perfect example of an account which doesn’t concentrate on only one stuff. His twitter can be compared to his diary. He occasionally post some awesome stuff on HTML5, JavaScript Performance. So if you only want useful stuff just go to his blog or visit hacks.mozilla.org.

Kendo UI is a HTML5, jQuery-based framework for building modern HTML apps. But they also have a blog and a twitter account which makes it very interesting since they’re not only blogging about their product but also some useful JavaScript stuff. And while you’re at it why not try their framework, I assure that you would say that it’s awesome.

If I had to choose just one twitter account this is the one that I would follow. It’s almost like they have access to every awesome web development stuff on the internet and they post it on their twitter. In case you don’t know Smashing Magazine is actually a web development and design blog founded on 2006 they also have written a ton of books. I can’t imagine how much they’ve done for the web development community, just their blog alone contains an enormous amount of useful stuff.

He’s claiming that he invented sleep patterns, I believe him because he’s awesome. Yes you can follow him on twitter but you can find useful stuff on his personal blog and a collaboration blog that he created with Rich Clark, Bruce Lawson, Jack Osborne, Mike Robinson and Tom Leadbetter.

Conclusion

Knowing what the leaders in the web development industry are up to is very important. It will give you an idea on what you will be doing 2 or 5 years from now and some of the resources that they shared. If you know of any other people that web developers should follow don’t hesitate to share them on the comments.